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Nikolaus Barbie (25 October 1913 – 25 September 1991) was a German officer of the SS and SD who worked in Vichy France during World War II. He became known as the " Butcher of Lyon " for having personally tortured prisoners—primarily Jews and members of the French Resistance —as the head of the Gestapo in Lyon.
Nikolaus "Klaus" Barbie was the chief of the Gestapo in Lyon, France, a vital center of the French Resistance, during World War II. He was responsible for the execution or murder of over 4,000 individuals and for the deportation of 7,500 Jews, the majority of whom perished in Auschwitz.
Jul 24, 2024 · Klaus Barbie was a Nazi leader, head of the Gestapo in Lyon from 1942 to 1944, who was held responsible for the death of some 4,000 persons and the deportation of some 7,500 others. Barbie was a member of the Hitler Youth and in 1935 joined the Sicherheitsdienst (SD; “Security Service”), a special.
Apr 2, 2019 · Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie, a.k.a. the "Butcher of Lyon," evaded justice at the Nuremberg Trials and was instead recruited by the CIA. It's estimated that Klaus Barbie was directly responsible for the deaths of some 14,000 people, including 44 Jewish children he deported from an orphanage.
As we near the anniversary of D-Day, the atrocities carried out by Gestapo official Nikolaus “Klaus” Barbie (1913-1991) in France prior to the Allied liberation of the country is the subject of this piece. Barbie, later named the “Butcher of Lyon,” tortured, murdered, and deported thousands of resistance fighters and Jews during his time in France.
The former Gestapo chief in Lyon, Klaus Barbie, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity. Nine jurors and three judges found Barbie - also known as the Butcher of...
May 21, 2018 · Klaus Barbie (1913-1991) was a Nazi SS leader who was head of anti-Resistance operations in France during its occupation by Germany in World War II. After the war, Barbie worked covertly for U.S. Army intelligence in Germany prior to his escape to Bolivia.
On the 3 July 1987 Klaus Barbie was sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity. Nine jurors and three judges found Barbie – known as the “Butcher of Lyons” – guilty of the 341 separate charges that were brought against him at the court in Lyon.
Sep 26, 1991 · Klaus Barbie, the former Gestapo chief in Lyon responsible for the deportations of hundreds of French Jews to Nazi death camps and the killings of French resistance leaders, died of cancer...
BARBIE, KLAUS (1913–1991) BIBLIOGRAPHY. German Nazi leader. The son of village schoolteachers, Klaus Barbie was born in Bad Godesberg, Germany, on 25 October 1913. He joined the Nazi youth group in April 1933. A mediocre student, he afterward devoted himself to militant activity.
